MONSTERS AND PUPPETS
Weekly
theme
Maths
Literacy
StoriesFantasy
settings~
Grammar and Extended
Spellings
Writing
Computing
Art and DT
Geog/His
PE
GYM
Science
Identifying
classifying
and grouping
Y1 – Children to focus
on punctuating
sentences taken from
Where the Wild
Things Are.
Introduce 2investigate
– WALT – log on using
our login and locate a
program
Waste Monsters- link
to Waste week
WALT: use different
tools and materials
to create a junk
model monster (See
Hamilton)
Chinese New Yearcustoms, traditionslink to puppets
Children will use
their hands and feet
to travel in different
ways thinking about
direction and level.
Children will link
three 'like
movements' together
and begin to think
about beginning and
completing a
sequence.
Year 1 observe
changes across the
four seasons
Children will develop
quality and control
when changing
shape using
stretching and
curling movements.
Year 1 observe
changes across the
four seasons
Y1- Where the Wild
things are
Y2-The Dragon
Machine, George and
the Dragon,
Week 1
Year 1 Time
Doubles, halves,
sequences and data
Year 2 Addition and
subtraction
Year 1
Where the wild things
are- Learn the story
(Pie Corbett)
Year 2- Dragon Stories
Character profiles- adj
focus,
What we did during
the holidays- recount
Y2- Possessive
apostrophes
Geography: identify
seasonal and daily
weather patterns in
the United Kingdom
ART- work of Jim
Henson
WAL: about the work
of a range of artists,
craft makers and
designers, describing
the differences and
similarities between
different practices
and disciplines, and
making links to their
own work
2
Year 1 Sequencing
and Place Value
Year 2 Capacity and
data
Year 1
Focus on settingsadjectives.
Description- use of
senses
Year 2- Dragon Stories
Focus on settingssimilies,
Y1 – adding suffixes
ing, ed, er, est.
Y2- adding e rest
suffixes
Character descriptionDescribe
ourselves/best friend
Use 2investigate –
maths link – charts of
favourite animals.
WALT – understand
and interpret data.
WALT: design a hand
puppet
Y1- settings
painting/main
character portraits
from Where the Wild
things are
Y2- Dragon paintings
(link to Lit)
Geography: identify
seasonal and daily
weather patterns in
the United Kingdom
Children will begin to
make short
sequences using
'unlike movements'.
Children will transfer
movement ideas
from the floor to
apparatus.
Children will describe
and comment on
their own and each
other's actions.
observe and describe
weather associated
with the seasons and
how day length varies.
Year 2
describe how animals
obtain their food from
plants and other
animals, using the
idea of a simple food
chain, and identify
and name different
sources of food.
observe and describe
weather associated
with the seasons and
how day length varies
Year 2
describe how animals
obtain their food from
plants and other
animals, using the
idea of a simple food
chain, and identify
and name different
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sources of food.
3
Year 1 Lengths and
subtraction
Year 2 Multiplication
and division
Year 1
Innovate the story of
‘Where the wild
things are’- change
main character or
setting
Y1 – Days of the week
spelling.
Instructions- how to
make a hand puppet
Y2- Contractions
Use primaryICT to
create a class/ group
pictogram.
WALT – use a new
program / input data.
Year 2
Dragon StoriesInnovate stories we’ve
read- plan and write
our own Dragon
Stories
WALT: Make a hand
puppet (sewing)
to use a range of
materials creatively
to design and make
products
Both Y1 and 2
Community Project
Art work- chalks,
pastels, charcoalslife in Bestwood in
the past
Look at the evolution
of puppets through
time
Geography: identify
seasonal and daily
weather patterns in
the United Kingdom
BOTH Y1 and 2Community Projectacrostics/poems
4
Year 1 Capacity and
data
Year 2 Addition and
Subtraction
5
Year 1 Addition and
Subtraction
Year 2 Addition,
Subtraction and
Money
Y1 and 2Monster/Alien stories
Draw story maps,
sequence
Y2- retell
Y1 and 2
Monster/Alien stories
Drama- role play, hto
seating, freeze
framing- adding own
captions
Y2- alternative ending
freeze frames
Y1 - Using the prefix –
un.
Write a letter- reply to
monster’s letter
Y2- Suffixes- ing
Y1 – writing dictated
sentences containing
common exception
words.
Y2- statements,
questions
D&T evaluation of
hand puppet design
Use WORD – WALT –
find the keys and make
a sentence/ YR2 to
type a paragraph and
use save as.
Use the computer to
find our work –WALT –
locate a named folder
and edit work inside
WALT: Make a
hand puppet
(sewing)
to use a range of
materials creatively
to design and make
products
WALT: evaluate our
hand puppet design
(extended writing for
Lit)
Geography: identify
seasonal and daily
weather patterns in
the United Kingdom
Children will
understand the
meaning of the word
'Pathway'. Children
will move in straight
lines, changing
direction and body
movement. Children
will make up a short
sequence of
movement while
moving in straight
lines on the floor and
using apparatus.
Children will identify
changes of direction
and describe
movements being
made.
Year 1 observe
changes across the
four seasons
Children will develop
their understanding
of the word
'Pathway' to include
'Curved Pathways'.
Children will move in
curved pathways
such as those made
by letters in their
names. Children will
make up a short
sequence of three
movements while
moving in curved
pathways, both on
the floor and on
apparatus. Children
will copy and
practice movements
made by other
children.
Children will work
co-operatively with
each other.
Year 1 observe
changes across the
four seasons
Children will begin to
develop partner work
by copying what
their partner is doing
and then changing
roles.
Children will transfer
skills learnt on the
floor to small and
low level apparatus.
observe and describe
weather associated
with the seasons and
how day length varies
Year 2
explore and compare
the differences
between things that
are living, dead, and
things
that have never been
alive
observe and describe
weather associated
with the seasons and
how day length varies
Year 2
explore and compare
the differences
between things that
are living, dead, and
things
that have never been
alive
Year 1 observe
changes across the
four seasons
observe and describe
weather associated
with the seasons and
how day length varies
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Year 1 Addition
Year 2 Addition,
subtraction and
money
Y1 and 2
Monster/Alien stories
Invent new character
Plan and write own
story
Y1 – using plurals s or
es.
Retell a story- from
Fantasy shed
WWW.Literacyshed
Y2- Statements and
questions
Children will explore
different ways of
jumping.
Use PowerPoint to
create a slideshow
about what we have
learnt. WALT – create a
slideshow.
Children will learn to
turn in the air so
that they move off in
a different direction.
Children will make a
sequence of three
'like actions' [jumps]
for their partner to
copy.
RE
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Sikhism
Festivals – Hola
Mohalla
Sikhism - marriage
Sikhism - Death
Festivals - Baisakhi
Review
5ks
Year 1 observe
changes across the
four seasons
observe and describe
weather associated
with the seasons and
how day length varies